EX EVERYTHING: Slow Change Will Pull Us Apart Debut LP From Oakland Post-Hardcore Act Featuring members of Kowloon Walled City, Early Graves, Mercy Ties, Blowupnihilist, Less Art; Releases Today
Photo Credit: Scott Evans
Slow Change Will Pull Us Apart LP pressed on Red with Black Marble is available at Neurot's US & EU store as well as on CD and Digital on all streaming platforms at This Location
EX EVERYTHING unites current and former members of Kowloon Walled City, Early Graves, Mercy Ties, Blowupnihilist, Less Art, and other notable Bay Area acts from the past two decades. The result of pent-up rage and even terror, Slow Change Will Pull Us Apart showcases the band’s fusion of Dischord-influenced math rock and noisecore; a nuanced rage that refuses to accommodate the passive listener.
Jon Howell’s percussive, angular playing is as impressive as it is baffling, with malformed chords and abstract melodies that still burrow effortlessly into your brain. Dan Sneddon’s drumming is a stampede of frenetic time signatures, deceptively understated patterns and anthemic bashing, while Ben Thorne’s bass roils underneath like a ship’s hull scraping the ocean floor. The band’s true skill, though, lies in how their instruments interlock, the structuring of movements that grow songs from rotted dirges to triumphant war cries, rhythmic tension building until a riff explodes it into something unexpected and completely satisfying. Vocalist Andre Sanabria screams like he’s trying to tear the songs apart, though he manages to find moments of almost Zen-like contemplation. It’s a deft and mesmerizing performance.
EX EVERYTHING recorded Slow Change Will Pull Us Apart with Scott Evans over four days in February 2022 at Sharkbite Studios in Oakland, with overdubs completed at Antisleep Audio through early 2023. The record was mixed by Evans, mastered by Amar Lal, and completed with artwork by Demian Johnson of Neurot labelmates Great Falls.
Also watch the video for “Detonation In The Public Sphere” HERE
Slow Change Will Pull Us Apart Track Listing:
1. The Reduction Of Human Life To An Economic Unit
2. Exiting The Vampire Castle
3. Detonation In The Public Sphere
4. A Sermon In Praise Of Corruption
5. Slow Cancellation Of The Future
6. Feral City
7. The Last Global Slaughter
8. Plunder, Cultivate, Fabricate
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EX EVERYTHING:
Dan Sneddon – drums
Ben Thorne – bass
Jon Howell – guitar
Andre Sanabria – vocals
Review copies of Slow Change Will Pull Us Apart and interviews with the band are now available. For interviews and coverage of EX EVERYTHING contact dave@earsplitcompound.com and in the UK/EU contact lauren@rarelyunable.com.
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